Category: hay
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Cool
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/cool06252007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/cool06252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Can you say, "not haying weather?" That's definitely the case here. Cloudy, cool, and high humidity. I haven't been having much luck putting up hay. I think I am going to have to start using the diesel to turn the…
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Hay Bales
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay06202007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay06202007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It's kind of fun haying this year. I am getting enough hay that I don't mind doing it. This field is going about 1 1/3 ton to the acre. It is my poorest field so it will only get better…
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Hay Down
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/hay06162007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/hay06162007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We finally dried up enough to get some hay chopped down the other day. It's really nice to get the haying started. We were lucky over the weekend and didn't get some of the wicked weather, hail, that was just…
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Drought Not a Concern, For Now
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/14/news/state/20-drought.txt" >Wave of wetness improves state's outlook</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With floodwaters still receding across southeastern Montana, it's time to talk about drought – or the lack of it.<br />n<br />nThe agricultural drought – the one that produced sparse and spindly crops and withered range grasses during many of the past eight years – has subsided.<br…
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Not Yet
I was going to try to cut a little hay down yesterday so I could get the haying started. I always say the hay doesn't dry standing up, but it definitely doesn't dry when it rains. Yes, again we got another half inch of rain and now have to wait until the ground is dry…
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Changes
It's amazing the difference a year can make. Last year I would have given anything to get some rain. This year I am to the point I will give anything to get it to quit raining. It has rained the last 3 days here and we have gotten over 4 inches of rain. Total in…
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Timing
Timing seems to be everything in life but sometimes you can't take the credit for it. It finally got dry enough that I was able to get all my renovating and farming done. I finished putting the seed in the ground on Wednesday afternoon and finish up the farming I was really pushing on. Guess…
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Buffet
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/buffet02022007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/buffet02022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some of the Bulls enjoying a wintry hay buffet. Taken 2/2/2007.</center>
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Chasing Hay
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cowshelter01112007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cowshelter01112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows chasing after better hay on a cold morning. Taken 1/11/2007. </center>